Candide: and Related Texts

by Voltaire, David Wootton (Translator)

Overview

David Wootton's scalpel-sharp translation of Candide features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide's travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872205468
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/15/2000
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.

Editorial Reviews

Wootton's edition is clearly the best on the market--the supporting material is brilliantly chosen and lavishly presented given the cost of the book. --Michael Kulikowski, Smith College

Along with a brisk and very readable rendition of the text, this edition provides the material necessary for understanding the point of Voltaire's satire. Wootton's Introduction gives an excellent account of the dispute over optimism, and the supplementary texts show both the opposing points of view in this dispute, and its development on other texts of Voltaire. --Christopher J. Kelly, co-editor, The Collected Writings of Rousseau

I annually assign Voltaire's Candide in my Western Civilization since 1500 course. This semester I am using the Hackett edition, having used at least three other editions in the past. What I especially find useful in your edition are the Related Texts. I think they are essential for understanding what Voltaire was addressing. The translation is lively, the notes quite useful, and Wotton's introduction thorough. I don't recall another edition that includes a map. All of these features in an inexpensive paperback--the other editions I've used can’t match it. --Steven Werner, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha

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